Wednesday, February 29, 2012

(click ads, from a 2007 issue of Investor's Business Daily)Many Baby Boomers right now are fondly remembering their favorite fake Monkees song, sung by Jones. This isn't a music blog, though, it's an ad blog. So, let's—maybe not as fondly—remember these ads Davy did for online stock picker Gorilla Trades. He also did a couple of :15 spots for them. RIP, Believer.

(via)It's a nice, simple to way show a lot of country quickly, and entertainingly. I watched it a second time, and liked it even more. The guy's a bit annoying to me, but then, as many of you know, most people are annoying to me.Ad agency: Bureau Working Title, Moscow.Previous tourism ads: North Dakota (terrible) • Switzerland (insane) • and Las Vegas (headline: Are You A Douchebag?).

(click, via)This is Sofa King Lame.After using the line for nine (9) fucking years, Northampton's Sofa King has been reprimanded by the ASA, because, "[the ad] could be interpreted as a derivative of the swear word 'fuck', which consumer research had found to be a word so likely to offend that it should not be used in ads at all, even when it was relevant to the name of a product..."They probably got a complaint from somebody "important"—like that dicksplash David Cameron.Here's six more amusing ASA ad bans.

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I'm busy working on actual work today, so here's an ad from 2008 for Tipp-Ex correction fluid (the client is actually cna stores). How bout that: a product hero ad where the product is, in fact, the hero. The asshole client is happy, and the whiny creatives are happy. That's rare. Ad agency: Jupiter Drawing Room.Related: in 2010, Tipp-Ex did one of the smartest YouTube ads I've seen.

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As a Mariners fan, I watched, in disbelieving horror, as those shitty A's teams somehow blew past the M's to win division crowns. As a Strat-O-Matic baseball junkie for many years, this poster touches me in that special, innocent boyhood place. The movie was pretty damn good, despite the awful Brad Pitt casting. You can buy the poster here. Related: a post of baseball ads.

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This ad for book and films shop Papercut was written by DDB Stockholm copywriter Magnus Jakobsson. He writes all the Papercut ads, and he writes them in this...breaking the 4th wall (or is it the 3rd or 5th wall?) style. I've mocked two of his previous Papercut ads (here and here). Unlike me, Magnus is thick-skinned and good-natured, and took my mostly fake-harsh words well. (here's his reply.) So: what do you wordsmithies think?

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Is "Daisy" supposed to be a gay male dog? Or a butch gay female dog? Or... maybe he/she is somewhere in the pre- post-op stages? I ask, because "Daisy" doesn't seem to have the right equipment. Is it under his leg? Photoshopped out? Thoughts?
Ad agency: Ireland Davenport, Johannesburg. Previous cute dog ads: one • two • three.

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This is perfect: me and my AD are working on a campaign for a fast copier.
Headline: THE FASTEST FUCKING COPIER IN THE WORLD.
It's a Japanese copier, so I'm worried about that exclusive usage restriction.
(fingers crossed they buy it)
Previous Corny, Porny Stock Photo of the Day.

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I never posted this amazing mall installation on copyranter, but wrote about it back in March, 2009 on Animal NY. Yes, this was a real 225 square meter sticker promoting Frontline flea and tick spray that was placed on the main floor of three shopping malls in Jakarta, Indonesia. Brilliant.
Ad agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Jakarta.
For lots more Ad Creep ads, creep here.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Unethical? I don't care.
It has the feel of the late 1980s-early1990s funny spots.
Will it work for Kayak?
I don't know. Again, I don't care.
Ad agency: Barton F. Graf 9000, NYC.Previously: four bad travel ads.

Friday, February 24, 2012

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Maybe it's his cigar smoke that's making her cry? From a 1962 issue of Playboy. The headline is a quote from Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the Brit politician and writer who coined, "The Great Unwashed" and other popular modern catch-phrases. Compare the ad to this—maybe more sexist, maybe less—Cigar Institute ad from 1959.

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Some fascinating information here. I doubt the veracity of some of it (especially the remote quip). The ad doesn't make me want to watch the National Geographic Channel. It makes me kinda hate myself (more). Jerks. What do you think? It's definitely translated from another language, doubt if it's real.Previously: Aliens laughing at our oil spills in Nat Geo Kids ad.

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Oh, I'm sorry. I meant to say: "ad creatives are the bravest people in the world, fighting like warrior-babies for their creative "children". One of a series of videos promoting the prestigious Dallas ADDYs (even I've won a couple of stupid ADDYs). By TM Advertising. Still, it's better work than this horrible Miami ADDYs video, and this NY ANDYs print ad featuring an anilingus train.

The first spot—mildly amusing.
The next two spots, including this one—intensely annoying.
This is what happens when you've got to blow a trillion dollar ad budget, somehow.
Now the GEICO Octopus: that's a character I'd like to see in more spots.
Ad agency: The Martin Agency.

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"ALL shapes and sizes".
Not the first time Levi's has done this. Won't be the last.
So, put on your fuck-me pumps, tie your hair in a ponytail, and hit the goddamn gym, you size six+ fatties. Then, you'll be hot. Then, go buy our jeans.
Marketers and magazines just can't help insulting the shit out of women.update: women: a male anon commenter doesn't think this ad is insulting to women.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

(click, via)Two of the coolest machines in the history of machinery, combined to create a perfect geek storm. My best friend, who works with the homeless in Burlington, VT, drives a classic VW bus (Cleveland Browns colors). He is getting this image, post-haste. Related: Awesome, but sexist, 1960s VW bus ad. Related: Previous many Star Wars ad things.

(click images)"No dial tone". Yeah, because it's been beaten to death. New York Fucking City: where even the pay phones are tougher than your pansy out-of-town ass. On Third Ave. in the East Village. To keep up with all NYC's abused (and tapped) pay phones, and Gotham street life/art/ephemera, follow New York Shitty.

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The artwork is so good, it brings tears to my eyes. But not as much as the futility of the message: You want me to "become David" against those giant fucking environment killing machines? Look at them! And you're only giving me a tiny slingshot? What weapons do you guys use? Yeah, no: peace out.
Ad agency: DraftFCB Switzerland.
A shit-ton more Greenpeace ads here.

(click ads, via) New ads from a statewide effort to reduce unwanted births/promote safe sex via the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (here's the campaign's website).Promiscuous sluts! Promiscuous gays! Sex is not for pleasure, sayeth Lord Rick (he truly believes this). Santorum just won the Colorado Caucus, so the ads are sure to get his BVD tighty whities in a bunch (Goddamn Demon-crat governor)—though they're nothing compared to these racy UK safe sex posters, also targeting young adults. Ad agency: Vermilion, Boulder.